Re: [wg-c] historical trivia (getting to the Shepperd/Kleiman "p

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

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On 17-Mar-2000 Dave Crocker wrote:
> For the record the IAHC proposal was authorized by a number of different 
> agencies and was developed by a 12-person committee and ratified by more 
> than 225 organizations.  I have a large ego, but attributing the IAHC 
> proposal to me -- even though I was its editor -- is rank distortion.

But none of those agencies or organizations had any authority whatsoever.  I
can go get 225 signatures to a proposal to add .wxw to the roots and to let me
manage it as a free domain registry.  But unless one of those authorizing it is
someone who actually has the authority to make it happen, it is just a
worthless document.
 

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